Loyalty Demonstration

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1921, Page 3

Loyalty Demonstration

A GREAT DISPLAY

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

| (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.)

SYDNEY, May 9

The loyalty demonstration in the Domain, in reply to the flag burning incaklent was unprecedented for size and display of loyalty. It is estimated ono hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand participated. Militants meetings being rushed and broken up. A red flag was captured and burned amidst an unixiarious scene. The po-

licea, who were present in largo force, made several arrests. A number of Socialist speakers were pulled off theif platform and received rough handling. E. Judd, addressing a meeting of the Socialist Party, incensed by constant interruptions, drew a revolver. A wib ; rush followed, and with the greatest difficulty the police managed to rescue Judd from the angry crowd. He was taken to the police station, where he was charged with being in possession of a revolver and behaving in an offensive manner. < » Four others were arrested for riotous behaviour.

Judd and about a dozen others, including the superintendent of police, were treated at the hospital for injuries, mostly minor, caused by crushing. Resolutions were adopted that the Union Jack is tho flag of Australia and that the red flag or any other emblem of revolution shall never be exhibited in thisa State, and in view of the danger threatening the Commonwealth and State we combine for the purpose of eradicating from Australia, all enemy agents and sympathisers, who are out to disrupt the integrity of the Empire. The speeches were fervidly loyal and hotly indignant against the insult to the Union Jack.